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During his short stint as India’s prime minister, Lal Bahadur Shastri proved many a stalwart of politics and diplomacy wrong. The war with Pakistan in 1965 was the highlight of his 19-month tenure as prime minister. During this period, he had a captivating relationship with then Pakistan’s military dictator Ayub Khan. Ayub Khan, a 6 feet 2 inches tall field marshal, had dismissed Lal Bahadur Shastri, a 5 feet 2 inches tall diminutive politician, as ‘nobody’ as he canceled his plan to visit New Delhi after the death of India’s first prime minister, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru in 1964. He apparently said ‘who is there [in India] to talk to?’ Ayub Khan was known to judge leaders by their physical appearance and Lal Bahadur Shastri was thin and short. This physique led some in India to believe that he would not be able to fill in the shoes of Nehru, a stalwart in Indian politics. But Shastri outmaneuvered not only his detractors within the Congress party but also world leaders who took him lig...

OnePlus 10 Pro was launched on Tuesday as the company's latest flagship. The new OnePlus phone comes with Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 SoC and is equipped with a 120Hz AMOLED display that carries a second-generation low-temperature polycrystalline oxide (LTPO) technology. The OnePlus 10 Pro also features triple rear cameras and a hole-punch display design. Unlike last year's OnePlus 9 Pro that had 65W fast charging, the OnePlus 10 Pro comes with up to 80W fast charging. The new OnePlus flagship also comes preloaded with a HyperBoost technology that is claimed to help better graphics. It also has a new design with a metal middle frame integrated with 3D nano nanocrystalline ceramics. OnePlus also introduced the OnePlus Buds Pro Mithril Edition truly wireless stereo (TWS) earbuds alongside the flagship phone. OnePlus 10 Pro price, availability OnePlus 10 Pro price has been set at CNY 4,699 (roughly Rs. 54,500) for the base 8GB RAM + 128GB storage variant. The phone al...